Exercise Quote by Mencius

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

— Richard Henry Lee

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

— Bertrand Russell

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without…

— Iain Pears

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

— Albert Camus

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without…

— Ronald Reagan

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society…

— Charles Colson

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics

— John Adams